X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=policy.sgml;h=4855506e6105556bc6db756e712ed4f849dcbc68;hb=3c725b9d2af39ac3a7e24b7d9eb374a48c5b6893;hp=113429b0f7f5ea1e261524d27e8cfd19ff742acf;hpb=57f9ee5d5f0023f6769ca55c6091fa65aabe5fba;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 113429b..4855506 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -2367,8 +2367,7 @@ endif This is an optional, recommended configuration file for the uscan utility which defines how to automatically scan ftp or http sites for newly available updates of the - package. This is used - by and other Debian QA + package. This is used Debian QA tools to help with quality control and maintenance of the distribution as a whole.

@@ -2542,7 +2541,7 @@ endif composed of US-ASCII characters excluding control characters, space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges 33-57 and 59-126, inclusive). Field names must not begin with the comment - character, #. + character, #, nor with the hyphen character, -.

@@ -3674,7 +3673,7 @@ Files:

The special value byhand for the section in a .changes file indicates that the file in question - is not an ordinary package file and must by installed by + is not an ordinary package file and must be installed by hand by the distribution maintainers. If the section is byhand the priority should be -.

@@ -6918,6 +6917,20 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1) exceptions to the FHS apply: + +

+ The FHS requirement that architecture-independent + application-specific static files be located in + /usr/share is relaxed to a suggestion. + + In particular, a subdirectory of /usr/lib may + be used by a package (or a collection of packages) to hold a + mixture of architecture-independent and + architecture-dependent files. However, when a directory is + entirely composed of architecture-independent files, it + should be located in /usr/share. +

+

The optional rules related to user specific @@ -6963,6 +6976,17 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1) multiarch.

+

+ The requirement for C and C++ headers files to be + accessible through the search path + /usr/include/ is amended, permitting files to + be accessible through the search path + /usr/include/triplet where + triplet is as above. + This is necessary for architecture-dependant headers + file to coexist in a multiarch setup. + +

Applications may also use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib/triplet. @@ -7029,6 +7053,16 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1) kernel information.

+ +

+ The requirement for /usr/local/lib<qual> + to exist if /lib<qual> or + /usr/lib<qual> exists (where + lib<qual> is a variant of + lib such as lib32 or + lib64) is removed. +

+

On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional @@ -8432,7 +8466,17 @@ fi renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, both programs must be renamed.

- +

+ Binary executables must not be statically linked with the GNU C + library, since this prevents the binary from benefiting from + fixes and improvements to the C library without being rebuilt + and complicates security updates. This requirement may be + relaxed for binary executables whose intended purpose is to + diagnose and fix the system in situations where the GNU C + library may not be usable (such as system recovery shells or + utilities like ldconfig) or for binary executables where the + security benefits of static linking outweigh the drawbacks. +

By default, when a package is being built, any binaries created should include debugging information, as well as @@ -9009,8 +9053,10 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq package is purged. - Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be - removed by the package during upgrade. + Obsolete configuration files without local changes should be + removed by the package during upgrade. + The dpkg-maintscript-helper tool, available from the + dpkg package, can help for this task.

@@ -9696,15 +9742,16 @@ done Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the directory -/usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name +/usr/lib/cgi-bin + + or a subdirectory of that directory, and the script + +/usr/lib/cgi-bin/.../cgi-bin-name - or a subdirectory of that directory, and should be - referred to as + should be referred to as -http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name +http://localhost/cgi-bin/.../cgi-bin-name - (possibly with a subdirectory name - before cgi-bin-name).